African Dive Adventures has pioneered Protea Banks since 1994 and our priorities are safety, conservation and sheer diving pleasure.

Our main purpose is to charter and lead dives at Protea Banks, a world renowned shark-diving reef which is situated 7.5 Km off Margate. We take small groups of well qualified divers to experience the thrill of a drift dive with wild sharks in their natural environment without the use of any protection at all. We also charter and lead dives to various inshore reefs if the conditions are favourable.

African Dive Adventures is not a scuba dive centre in the traditional way. We don't have a building offering board and lodging but we casually meet eachother every morning at 7:AM in the harbour, where we park our boats and have our open-air office. After we have finished paperwork, we will all start assembling our dive equipment, we'll give you a thorough briefing and we're off.

African Dive Adventures constantly strives to maintain the highest possible standard of safety and professionalism. Our boat always carries medical oxygen as well as all First Aid and Safety Equipment. Before each dive we do an extensive briefing with all people involved. It is our mission to fight for the conservation of Protea Banks, the inshore reefs and their inhabitants such as the sharks, the dolphins, the whales and all the other creatures down the line.

We believe in ECO-Tourism and ECO-Education of all our divers from near and far.

We do not touch the reef or any fish and do not allow any unqualified or inexperienced people to dive with us in the interest of safety and conservation.

We do not pollute the sea and if we find any pollution on our trips out at sea, we go all the way to remove it whenever possible.

We protest strongly against the unnecessary killing of sharks and dolphins by trophy-hunters, gillnets and ignorant fishermen.

About Beulah and Roland Mauz

Roland and Beulah Mauz, the owners of African Dive Adventures, have been diving Protea Banks since 1996. Beulah, born in South Africa, lived in Germany for 5 years while Roland was studying Business Administration in Kempten, Germany. During her stay in Germany, Beulah made acquaintance with its citizens and mastered the german language marvellously. Roland, raised in southern Germany, spent two years serving the german Navy after which he travelled the world. When he finished his studies in 1989, Roland and Beulah went back to Beulah's native country, South Africa. They married on the Comores where both of them got fascinated with scuba diving. Meanwhile, Roland has done more than 1250 dives just on Protea Banks.